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Friday, 11 December 2020

Friday 11th December 2020

Middleton Lakes

14x White-fronted Geese still in field north of North pit this morning, Pintail, Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, 3x Goosander, 5x Shelduck, 2x Great Egret and a Bittern at Dosthill NR at dawn, (SPA)

Croxall 

2x Snipe, 2x Goldeneye, Green Woodpecker, (SCa)

Radford Meadows

14x White-fronted Geese still at 11:30, view from reserve plaque over river on flooded meadows (ESm)

                                                          Whitefronts by Phil Jones

Fazeley-Middleton Lakes

14x Russian White-fronts in canal side field this afternoon also 2x Great Egret, (TPe)

Audley

2x Great Egret in field just east of Millend viewable from Millend Lane (SJT)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, 2x Ruff, 18x Curlew, 2x Redshank, Dunlin, 8x Snipe, Pintail, 10x Shelduck, 2x Goosander, 6x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, 2x Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, (CEc)  -  also 104x Lapwing, 7x Goldeneye, 32x Wigeon, 82x Shoveler, 38x Pochard, 7x Gadwall, 12x Shelduck, 315x Teal, 4x Water Rail, 31x Little Grebe, ad Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, 15x GBB Gull, 5x Common Gull, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 5000x Starling, (JWo, DSc)

Burslem Park

15x Goosander, (PMo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Water Pipit, 3x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Chiffchaff,

Blithfield Resv

Pink-footed Goose, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Dunlin, 5x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, 8x Goosander, 8x Stonechat, Little Egret, (SE,HF)

                                                                By Steve Edwards

Chasewater

1w Caspian Gull, YL Gull, 

Pool Hall

Great Egret still,